AOS Colloquium Series
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
sponsors a colloquium each Monday afternoon. Talks
are held at 3:30 pm in room 811 of the Atmospheric,
Oceanic, and Space Science Building at 1225 W. Dayton
Street. These are speakers from previous colloquia.
Fall 2006-2007
September 6 (Special Date and Time)
Wednesday, at 2:25 in AOS 907
Andy Jacobson
NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Global Monitoring Divison
Topic: Oceanic Constraints on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
September 11
Po-Hsiung Lin
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University
Topic: The Eyewall-penetration Reconnaissance Observation of Typhoon Longwang with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerosonde
September 18
Taneil Uttal
NOAA, Environmental Technology Lab
Topic: Investigating the Role of Clouds in the Arctic Climate System
Sept. 25
Ming Cai
Florida State University
Topic: A Mass Circulation Paradigm for the Annular Mode Variability
October 6 (Special Date, Time, and Room)
Friday at 1PM in Room 1240 Comp. Sci. Building, 1210 W. Dayton St.
Reid Bryson Colloquium
Steve Schneider
Stanford University
Topic: Can We Define - Let Alone Prevent- 'Dangerous' Climate Change
October 9
Michela Biasutti
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Topic: Climate Change in the Sahel
October 16
Rudy Husar, Director
CAPITA, Washington University
Topic: Thoughts on Atmospheric Aerosols: Science, Air Quality and Informatics
October 23
Matt Hitchman
UW-Madison Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Topic: A Seasonal Climatology of Rossby Wave Breaking in the 320–2000K Layer
October 30
Andrew Majda, Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences
Dept. of Mathematics and Climate, Atmosphere, Ocean Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
New York University
Topic: Multi-Scale Models for the Tropics: A Systematic Route for Improving Theory, Computational, and Predictive Strategies
November 2 (Special Day)
Chris Bretherton
University of Washington
Topic: New Insights into Cumulus Parameterization from Simulations of Shallow and Deep Cumulus Convection
November 6
Bill Collins
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate Modeling Section
Topic: Radiative Forcing in Global Climate Models: Problems and Prospects
November 13
Ralf Bennartz
University of Wisconsin
Topic: Global Assessment of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Droplet Number Concentration from Satellite
November 20
Rob Wood
University of Washington
Topic: The importance of precipitation in marine boundary layer clouds
November 27
TBA
December 4
No Colloquium
December 11
TBA
Spring 2005-2006
February 6
Hank Revercomb, Director
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
Topic: Space Science and Engineering Center: A Science Overview
February 13
Surabi Menon
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Topic: Effects of Aerosols on Global and Regional Climate
February 20
John Kutzbach, Professor Emeritus, UW-Madison
Topic: Simulated 21st Century Change in Regional and Global Water Balance: Links to Global Temperature and Moisture Transport Increase
February 27
Jamie Schauer
Civil & Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison
Topic: Surface Measurements of Aerosol Chemistry to Support Climate Change Studies
March 6
Sumant Nigam
Editor, Journal of Climate
Professor, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland
Topic: Hydroclimate Variability over the Great Plains in Observations, Reanalyses, and Model Simulations
March 20
Dr. Dong L. Wu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Topic: MLS Cloud Ice Observations: A New Constraint to Climate Models in the Upper Troposphere
March 27
Christine Molling
SSEC Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, UW-Madison
Topic: The Wisconsin Buffer Intiative from a Scientist's Perspective
April 3
Cecilia Bitz
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Topic: Predicting Sea Ice-Climate Interactions
April 10
Zhengyu Liu, Director, Center for Climatic Research Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison
Topic: Rethink Tropical Ocean Response to Global Warming: the Enhanced Equatorial Warming
April 17
Dr. Sundar Christopher
University of Alabama-Huntsville
Topic: Measurement Bases Assessment of Aerosol Effects on Climate and Air Quality
April 24
Cancelled
May 1
Dr. Ping Chang
Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M
Topic: Internal Atmospheric Variability, Pacific Medridional Mode and ENSO
Fall 2005-2006
September 12
Michael Riemer
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, University of Karlsruhe
Topic: Interaction Between Tropical Cyclones and Idealized Baroclinic Waves
September 19
Ed Eloranta, SSEC, Lidar Group
Topic: UW Lidar Goes to the Arctic -- Deployment and Preliminary Results
September 26
No Colloquium this week.
October 3
Shuyi Chen
Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Topic: Hurricane Intensity and Rainex
October 10
Peter Bauer
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Topic: Forward/Inverse Modelling Involved in Assimilation of Precipitation in NWP Models
October 17
Jarmo Koistinen
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Topic: Experience of C-Band Precipitation Measurements in a Cold Climate
October 24
Richard A. Feely
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA
Topic: Changes in Ocean Acidity Resulting from the Buildup of CO2: Implications for the Present and the Future
October 31
Joan Alexander
Colorado Research Associates
Topic: Local and Global Effects of Gravity Waves Generated by Convection
November 7
No Colloquium this week
November 14
Hans Verlinde
Department of Meteorology, Penn State
Topic: Opportunities at NSF
November 21
Candidate for Faculty Position
Topic: Representation of Aerosol-Cloud-Drizzle Interactions in Regional Forecast Models
November 28
Candidate for Faculty Position
Topic: Application of Advanced Data Assimilation Techniques to the Study of the Tropical Climate System
December 12
Dr. William Rossow, 2005 Recipient of the Verner E. Suomi Award
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Topic: Long-term Variations of Cloudiness
Spring 2004-2005
January 24
Steve Vavrus
Center for Climatic Research, UW-Madison
Topic: Changes in Atmospheric Energy Transport to the Arctic Under Greenhouse Warming
February 7
Dr. Michael Morgan
AOS, UW-Madison
Topic: Application of Adjoint-derived Forecast Sensitivities to the 24-25 January 2000 U.S. East Coast Snowstorm
February 14
Dr. David Houghton, Professor Emeritus
UW-Madison, AOS
Topic: Global Climate Change - Fiction, Facts, Uncertainties, Challenges, and Impacts and ‘My Journey’
February 21
Dr. Becky Alexander
Harvard Univeristy
Topic: Marine Biogenic Emissions, Sulfate Aerosol Formation, and Climate: Constraints from Oxygen Isotopes
February 28
Dr. Courtney Schumacher
Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M
Topic: Convective Systems over Sub-Saharan Africa and the Tropical East Atlantic
March 7
Dr. Paola Rizzoli
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Internal Variability of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean
March 14
Tom Whittaker and Tom Rink
Space Science and Engineering Center/CIMSS
Topic: An Introduction to HYDRA: The Hyperspectral Viewer for Development of Research Applications
March 28
Dr. Phillip Cunningham
Florida State University
Topic: Advances in the Understanding of Wildfire Behavior and Smoke Transport Using High-Resolution Numerical Models
April 4
Dr. Peggy Le Mone
NCAR
Topic: Women in Atmospheric Sciences
April 11
Jason Dunion
NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division
Topic: The Link Between Saharan Dust Storms and Atlantic Hurricanes
April 18
Amanda Adams
Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison
PhD Presentation
Topic: The Relationship Between Topography and the Ross Ice Shelf Air Stream
April 25
Dr. Clara Deser
Climate and Global Dynamics Division, NCAR
Topic: Arctic Sea Ice Variability in the Context of Recent Atmospheric Circulation Trends: Response and Feedback
May 2
Dr. Peter Knippertz
AOS, UW-Madison
Topic: Tropical-Extratropical Interactions and Extreme Weather Situations in West Africa
Fall 2004-2005
September 13
Dr. Leigh Orf
Department of Geology, Central Michigan University
Topic: Simulation and Visualization of a Supercell Thunderstorm Containing Tornado-like Vortices
September 20
Dr. K. N. Liou, Director of the Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California- Los Angles
Topic: Cirrus Clouds: Remote Sensing and Climate
September 27
Dr. Kerry Cook
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Topic: South America During the Last Glacial Maximum: Delayed Onset of the Summer Monsoon
October 4
Dr. Zbigniew Sorbjan
Physics Department, Marquette University
Topic: Free and Forced Convetion in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
October 11
Dr. Jim Weinman
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Topic: Spaceborne Microwave Radiometric Meausrement of Snowfall
October 18
Shaima Nasiri
Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: The Effects of Overlapping Clouds on MODIS Cloud Optical Property Retrievals
October 20 (special date)
Dr. Jorge Sarmiento
Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University
Topic: The Role of the Southern Ocean in Global Biological Productivity and its Bearing on Climate
October 25
Dr. Gabriele Hegerl
Division of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School for the Environment, Duke University
Topic: Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Chage: Using the Past as a Guide to the Future
November 8
Rich Mamrosh
National Weather Service, Green Bay
Topic: TAMDAR and the Great Lakes Fleet Experiment (GLFE)
November 22
Dr. Eugenia Kalnay, Distingushed University Professor
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Topic: Ensemble Forecasting and Data Assimilation: Two Problems with the Same Solution?
November 29 (moved to Spring 2004-2005)
Eric Rappin
Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: The Role of Environmental Inertial Stability in Tropical Cyclone Intensification
December 6
Dr. Arlene Fiore
NOAA
Topic: Background Ozone in Surface Air over the United States: Variability, Climate Linkages, and Policy Implications
December 13
Eric Smith
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: GPM Era Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms
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